When trying to login from frontend, the screen just refreshes and gives this message:

"You are not authorized to view this resource.
You need to login."

I tried couple of times continuously to login. But in the backend, in the “logged” tab on the main page, the username is listed multiple times (may be for each time I tried) as logged in. I clicked on Logout in the backend for this user. This problem appears to happen intermittently.

I am using Joomla version 1.0.3 stable. I am not in a position to upgrade. Is there any fix available for this problem? Please provide your inputs. Thanks!

I am not a AOL user. I have cookies enabled and could successfully login until couple of days ago. I noticed this login failure just recently. The problem had not occurred again so far. Thank you very much for the detailed response. I will look into upgrading.

I have a few users with tihs problem. Running 1.0.8 with Virtuemart 1.0.2 The login returns them to the homepage as not logged in but I see them in the backend as logged in. This is using the Virtuemart login mod. When they use the Joomla login.. the same happen with a "you are not authorized to view this resource."

Since then, I did a full reinstall from the full package, 1.0.8. Originally I upgraded from Mambo 4.5.3.2, then patched to 1.0.8. I was able to login via my test user account and admin into the frontend (using firefox). Closed out the browser, opened it back up and bam! it didn't work. Now the 'who's online' module isn't working either. I'm not very strong technically, so at this point, I'm just going to have to grin and bear it until somebody else solves it!

Thanks for the info - mine was no allowing logons, creating a new user with different group access did not work either. Simple resolution thank goodness - cleared my cache as suggested - I was thinking the worse!!

I did another fresh install and have not re-installed all of the components. Everything has been working fine... the only extension I have not re-installed is YANC... don't know if there is a connection (doubt it), but like I said, everything is working well.

I log in. I know that if I put in a wrong username or password, the error pop up box "Incorrect username or password. Please try again." message would appear. BUT it does NOT!.

Instead, nothing happens and I'm not logged in. There is no "Hi, username", so and so... in the Login Module. I try to log in the second time. It then works. So basically, I had to log in twice.

Another similar problem is that I try to log in, but nothing happens. But if I click on a link inside the site (example: Home) it refreshes the page and then I will finally see the "Hi, username..." and the "Who's Online" module will show my logged in username.

Last edited by Virtute on Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:55 am, edited 1 time in total.

1. Basically the first time you open a browser and go to log in, your first log in will fail. No username or password errors though, just refreshes the page, like nothing happened.

2. Then you log in again, this time it finally shows you in the "Who's Online" but not in the Login Module's "Hi, username." So you click on any link in the site which refreshes the page and your Usermenu finally shows up as well as the "Hi, username" in the login module.

3. You log out, and log in, its normal. All everything works at this point, the Who's Online and Login Module shows your username.

4. You log out again and you leave the site to go to another site like Yahoo then go back to your site. Your try to log in, you will experience #2.

5. If you close the browser and open it again and try to log in to the site. You're back to #1.

Last edited by Virtute on Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:15 am, edited 1 time in total.

At least in my case, I think I isolated this to a problem with the JACL component. I had JACL 1.0.7 installed with Joomla 1.0.7. I upgraded to Joomla 1.0.8, but did not use the Byos Technologies upgrade patch to patch both JACL and Joomla at the same time.

To fix the problem, I had to ftp files from the 1.0.8 version of JACL into my Joomla installation until everything was solid.

If anyone else is running JACL who has this problem, I would bet that's what causing it.

I can't wait until Joomla implements advanced user management so I don't have to use JACL anymore.

Having the EXACT same problem as Virtute. I try to log in, seems like the page refreshes and shows the login as not logged in. When I click on any other link, it changes to show the user logged in and the restricted user menu is displayed.

Hello. I am experienceing the same problem using joomla 1.0.11, and the latest release of forumboard (downloaded on Sunday). The problem is resolved when you check the Remember Me Box on the login module. So, I'm looking for a fix until the next release, where this issue should be resolved. Essentially, how should I edit the login file to ensure that:
The Remember me check box is defaulted to yes
And possibly greyed out.
or
Default the Remember Me function to yes
and do not display the check box

I could just comment the relevant code, but then it is still default to unchecked.

sias wrote:
Having the EXACT same problem as Virtute. I try to log in, seems like the page refreshes and shows the login as not logged in. When I click on any other link, it changes to show the user logged in and the restricted user menu is displayed.

I have 1.0.11 now but my problem seem to have been fixed previously. Double check your configuration.php file and the entry "$mosConfig_live_site ="

It has to match with how you browse your site. For example if you have set $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://yoursite.com", and you browse your site with a "www" as in http://www.yoursite.com instead of http://yoursite.com as set in yoru configuration.php file, you get the problems you are experiencing now or the "you are not authorized to view" problem.

I decided to use $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://www.yoursite.com" so I make sure when I browse in Firefox or IE, I include the "www" portion. Also, I use redirects to make sure users use the "www".

The login issues in the backend admin login seems to be related. You get a problem if you have set http://yoursite.com in the configuration.php file and you try to log in to your administration with http://www.yoursite.com/administrator.&nbsp; It just has to match. On my part I just created an admin.php that redirects using the "www" since my $mosConfig_live_site is set with a "www".